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XtremWeb 8.0.2 has been released

5/3/12 11:10 AM

DEGISCO and EDGI partner Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has released XtremWeb 8.0.2.

The following corrections have been introduced:

on the server side, the scheduling has been improved: hosts.incomingconnection is now taken into account to ensure a server like job is not sent to a volunteer resource where incoming connections are not allowed

on the server side, the scheduling has been improved: restoring a feature from XtremWeb 1.8.0 by INRIA: "expected host" so that the end user can specify at submission time the expected volunteer resource to run the job. Note, that if the expected host does not request a job or does not match the requirements (OS, CPU...), the job is never computed.

the DG to SG bridge is now compatible with shared applications so that VirtualBox on EGI resources can be used

some bugs corrected on client side regarding application registration and task management

a bug corrected on temporary file usage: they are now cleaned at software exit

the REST interface has been completely rewritten

New features include:

1. The creation of new Live CD can be customized

This is done by providing several optional files:

a text file 'user.packages' may be provided to install custom packages: this file must contain a space separated packages list

a text file 'user.hostname' may be provided to customize the LiveCD hostname: this file must contain the host name only

any package files are installed on the fly (*.rpm or *.deb, depending on the LiveCD OS)

2. The client can now be used to create SmartSockets end point, independently of any task

This may be useful to create SmartSockets tunnel from a running VM to the client PC

e.g. mount the client FS inside the running VM

3. A new Mac OS X package "xwhep.vworker" to deploy the middleware inside a VM